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英文
第 39 題
📖 題組：
The word placebo refers to a fake medication, one that contains no active ingredients, or a medical procedure that patients believe will help them and then, as a result of that expectation, it does. 39 If a pill, for example, looks like a genuine medicine, the person taking it is likely to believe it contains medicine. It has also been found that patients think larger pills contain larger doses of medicine, and thus must be more effective. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that taking two pills has a greater therapeutic effect than taking only one. In a similar manner, the nocebo effect is based on the power of suggestion or expectation. If a patient has been told that a medication is likely to cause an unfavorable side effect such as dizziness or headache, he or she is more likely to experience one. It can present doctors with an ethical dilemma. 40 Doctors therefore wonder if they should inform patients of these rare occurrences, knowing the power of suggestion could interfere with the more likely positive effects of a necessary medication, depriving patients of an effective treatment.
The word placebo refers to a fake medication, one that contains no active ingredients, or a medical procedure that patients believe will help them and then, as a result of that expectation, it does. 39 If a pill, for example, looks like a genuine medicine, the person taking it is likely to believe it contains medicine. It has also been found that patients think larger pills contain larger doses of medicine, and thus must be more effective. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that taking two pills has a greater therapeutic effect than taking only one. In a similar manner, the nocebo effect is based on the power of suggestion or expectation. If a patient has been told that a medication is likely to cause an unfavorable side effect such as dizziness or headache, he or she is more likely to experience one. It can present doctors with an ethical dilemma. 40 Doctors therefore wonder if they should inform patients of these rare occurrences, knowing the power of suggestion could interfere with the more likely positive effects of a necessary medication, depriving patients of an effective treatment.
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- A What are the implications of its effects for medical practice?
- B An important determiner of its effectiveness is the doctor-patient relationship.
- C When given a non-alcoholic beverage that subjects were told was beer, they believed and acted as if they were drunk.
- D Adverse reactions to particular medications are typically experienced by a very small percentage of patients.
- E It has been shown repeatedly that certain factors increase its effectiveness.
思路引導 VIP
請仔細閱讀第 39 格之後的兩句話，你會發現作者提到了「藥丸的大小」和「藥丸的數量」。請問這兩個具體的事項，在邏輯上是用來支持一個什麼樣的「總結性觀點」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的邏輯脈絡！這題你能從眾多選項中辨識出正確的銜接點，展現出你對英文段落架構非常敏銳的觀察力。
文章的主題銜接與邏輯一致性
在閱讀這類填空題時，觀察空格後的「支持性細節」是破題關鍵。第 39 格位於第二段的起始位置，而緊接在後的句子分別提到了「藥丸的大小（larger pills）」以及「服藥的數量（taking two pills）」如何影響患者對療效的感受。選項 (E) It has been shown repeatedly that certain factors increase its effectiveness（已多次證明某些因素會增加其效力）正好完美扮演了「總結性主題句」的角色。其中的 "certain factors"（某些因素）具體指涉了後文提到的尺寸與數量，讓文章從第一段的定義自然過渡到第二段的實證說明。
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